| 1 | * Too many to count aboard ''UsefulNotes/RMSTitanic'', but here are some: |
| 2 | ** While the reports of First Officer Murdoch's death vary (the most common is that he died of suicide by revolver before the ship went down), another possibility is that he was preparing to ''single-handedly'' launch Collapsible A, normally a job for twelve strong men, when he was crushed to death by the falling #1 funnel. |
| 3 | ** Priest Fr. Thomas Byles, who surrendered a station in a lifeboat early to free many from the complicated warrens of the steerage holds. In the film ''Film/Titanic1997'', he was last seen leading a group of terrified, presumably third-class passengers in praying the Hail Mary. Neither his fictionalized counterpart nor the real man survived their plunge into freezing waters that April night. |
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| 5 | * St. Agnes of Rome, a 12-year-old Christian girl who was martyred in 304 AD during the persecution by the emperor Diocletian. St. Ambrose of Milan, speaking during the latter half of the same century, described her demise as follows: |
| 6 | -->What threats the executioner used to make her fear him, what allurements to persuade her, how many desired that she would come to them in marriage! But she answered: It would be an injury to my spouse to look on any one as likely to please me. He who chose me first for Himself shall receive me. Why are you delaying, executioner? Let this body perish which can be loved by eyes which I would not. She stood, she prayed, she bent down her neck. You could see the executioner tremble, as though he himself had been condemned, and his right hand shake, his face grow pale, as he feared the peril of another, while the maiden feared not for her own. You have then in one victim a twofold martyrdom, of modesty and of religion. She both remained a virgin and she obtained martyrdom. |
| 7 | * Any soldier or marine who has ever [[JumpingOnAGrenade jumped on top of a grenade]] to shield their squad-mates. |
| 8 | ** On December 19, 1941, at the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Hong_Kong Battle of Hong Kong]], Canadian Army Company Sergeant Major John Robert Osborn [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJubIs225J0 jumped on a grenade]], sacrificing himself to save his men. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross. |
| 9 | *** In the same battle, a dog (a Newfoundland from Newfoundland) named Gander picked up a hand grenade with his mouth and rushed it back towards the enemy, saving the lives of the rest of the squad. Gander had been a family pet before and was put in the military by his owner to avoid having to put his pet down (Gander had accidentally hurt a child.) |
| 10 | ** On November 7, 1943, at Bougainville, Marine Sergeant Herbert J. Thomas, Jr. deliberately fell on a grenade, sacrificing himself protecting nearby Marines. |
| 11 | ** On April 5th, 1945, Sadao Munemori leaped on a grenade to save 2 other infantrymen. The citation tells the story better: "He fought with great gallantry and intrepidity near Seravezza, Italy. When his unit was pinned down by grazing fire from the enemy's strong mountain defense and command of the squad devolved on him with the wounding of its regular leader, he made frontal, one-man attacks through direct fire and knocked out two machine guns with grenades. Withdrawing under murderous fire and showers of grenades from other enemy emplacements, he had nearly reached a shell crater occupied by two of his men when an unexploded grenade bounced on his helmet and rolled toward his helpless comrades. He arose into the withering fire, dived for the missile and smothered its blast with his body. By his swift, supremely heroic action Pfc. Munemori saved two of his men at the cost of his own life and did much to clear the path for his company's victorious advance." |
| 12 | ** On September 1, 1950, near Yongsan, Korea, U.S. Army Private First Class David M. Smith noticed an enemy grenade lobbed into his company's emplacement. Pfc. Smith shouted a warning to his comrades and, fully aware of the odds against him, flung himself upon it. Although he was mortally wounded in this display of valor, his act saved five men from injury or death. |
| 13 | ** On February 23, 1971, an M35 2½ ton cargo truck was ambushed by a squad of NVA soldiers near An Khê. At one point during the firefight, an NVA soldier threw a fragmentation grenade into the truck's compartment. 21-year-old Specialist Four Larry G. Dahl was the only occupant who heard the grenade land into the truck. Realizing that there was not sufficient time to return it, he immediately threw himself on top of the grenade, saving his comrades' lives but at the cost of his own. Dahl was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor. |
| 14 | ** On April 14, 2004, near Husaybah, Iraq, Jason Dunham used his body and helmet to shield others from a grenade explosion - but died shortly afterward from his injuries. |
| 15 | ** On July 26, 2006, Roi Klein, during the Battle of Bint Jbeil jumped on a grenade thrown into the house where Klein and his unit were present and stopped the explosion with his body. |
| 16 | ** On Dec. 4, 2006, in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, 19-year-old U.S. Army Spc. Ross A. [=McGinnis=] was killed instantly when he used his body to smother a grenade, saving the lives of four nearby soldiers. |
| 17 | * Two words: [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror "Let's roll."]] During the September 11th attacks, there were four hijacked planes: two hit the World Trade Center, one hit the Pentagon, and the fourth - United Flight 93 - crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. For a while, it wasn't clear what had happened to United 93, but then recordings of several phone calls made by the passengers and flight crew were found. The most famous of those calls, made by passenger Todd Beamer, included the explanation that he and several others on board were planning to rush the hijackers and attempt to take back control of the plane. Beamer's call ended with the words (addressed to someone else aboard the plane) "Are you guys ready? Okay. Let's roll." No one aboard the plane survived, but thanks to the resistance the hijackers failed to reach their target (possibly the US Capitol Building or the White House) and many more lives were probably saved. |
| 18 | ** FDNY firefighter Stephen Siller got stuck in traffic in the Brooklyn-Battery tunnel on September 11th. In response, he put on 60 pounds worth of his firefighting gear and ran over a mile and a half the rest of the way through the tunnel to the World Trade Center where he was killed. A race is now held every year through the same tunnel in his honor. |
| 19 | * Werner Voss--German AcePilot in WWI, 48 kills to his credit. Voss was killed fighting at least 6 elite British pilots (by HIMSELF), among which were James [=McCudden=] and Arthur Rhys-Davids in an epic, 10-minute dogfight. He managed to put bullets into ALL of the other planes before he caught one through the lung. By the way, he was 20. |
| 20 | * Athanasios Diakos, during the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire in 1821; the man led a group of 800 Greeks that were defending a bridge in Alamana, Greece, against the oncoming Turkish army. They eventually lost and he was executed by the Turks, but not before earning a badass exit from the world. His last words were, in verse: "Just look at the time when Death chose to call, now that the flowers come to bloom and the earth springs sweet grass." |
| 21 | * After the USS ''Cumberland'' was rammed by a Confederate ironclad, her crew kept up heavy cannon fire while sinking. The ironclad was impervious to their fire, but still. |
| 22 | * HMS ''Glowworm'': when a duel against two German destroyers became the losing side of a CurbStompBattle against the faster, more heavily armed heavy cruiser ''Admiral Hipper'', her captain, Lieutenant Commander Gerard Broadmead Roope VC RN, attempted to torpedo his opponent, playing what was a small ship's hole card against larger ones in those days. When this failed, he charged his burning ship in to ram. ''Glowworm'' was on fire from end to end, her guns knocked out, and her Action Stations klaxon stuck on due to a shorted-out wire connection. ''[[MassOhCrap The Germans were being attacked by a flaming ghost ship that was screaming like a banshee]] and [[TakingYouWithMe determined to ram them]]''. It could only have one ending, but when it was over the German cruiser had had 130ft of armor plate and half its own torpedo tubes ripped off, while ''Glowworm'' carried Roope and 108 of his men to Valhalla. Captain Roope was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - ''[[WorthyOpponent at the recommendation of the German cruiser's captain.]]'' |
| 23 | * HMS ''Rawalpindi'': a converted merchant ship patrolling the North Sea, found itself pitted against German battleships ''Gneisenau'' and ''Scharnhorst'' in November 1939. Despite being hopelessly outgunned, slower, and then some, its captain, a 60-year old reserve officer named Edward C. Kennedy, decided to fight instead of surrendering. (His supposed last words were "We’ll fight them both, they’ll sink us, and that will be that. Good-bye."). |
| 24 | * HMS ''Jervis Bay'': another converted merchant ship escorting a North Atlantic convoy during World War II, found itself confronted by German heavy cruiser (or, a pocket battleship) ''Admiral Scheer''. Despite being heavily outgunned, the British captain fought the German cruiser so that the merchant ships he was escorting could escape--which most of them did. Captain Fegen of the ''Jervis Bay'' was awarded Victoria Cross posthumously for this battle. |
| 25 | ** While it is often overlooked, the SS ''Beaverford'' arguably played an even greater role in Convoy HX-84's survival than the ''Jervis Bay''. When the ''Jervis Bay'' was sunk after only 22 minutes, the ''Beaverford'', captained by 60-year-old Hugh Pettigrew, was one of the only ships fast enough to have a chance at escaping on its own. Captain Pettigrew had come about and was attempting to scatter when he noticed the ''Scheer'' engaging another merchant ship. He ordered his ship to turn around and engage the German cruiser with its two small guns. He sent out a radio message to the rest of the convoy, stating "It's our turn now. So long. Captain and Crew of the SS ''Beaverford''". Pettigrew's ship managed to keep the ''Scheer'' engaged for ''almost five hours,'' dodging in and out of smoke banks and firing at every opportunity to distract the German ship from the rest of the convoy. Eventually, the ''Beaverford'' succumbed to gunfire and a torpedo and went down with all hands, but managed to buy enough time for the other ships to scatter. The Germans were only able to locate and sink one other ship from the convoy, while the rest made it safely to Britain. |
| 26 | * Despite already having been wounded, Ordinary Seaman Teddy Sheean of the corvette HMAS ''Armidale'' elected to go down with his stricken ship, firing a 20mm cannon against attacking Japanese aircraft - shooting down one of them - in order to dissuade them from strafing his comrades as they evacuated. The truly awesome part? He continued firing ''even after he had become submerged''. |
| 27 | ** The Australian Navy got a ship named HMAS ''Sheean''. Her motto? "Fight On". Her type? Collins-class ''Submarine''. |
| 28 | * When HMS ''Kelly'' was lost in 1941 during the evacuation from Crete, her gun turrets only ceased firing ''when the water level reached the muzzles''. The gunlayers were doomed, but they kept fighting to the bitter end. |
| 29 | * The ''Bismarck'' didn't go down quietly, and after being alone, bombarded, having her rudder torpedoed and stuck in permanent circular motion, it stood quite well against a FLEET of enemy ships. |
| 30 | ** The ''Hood'' is believed by many to have had a dying moment of awesome; for context, the ''Bismarck's'' fatal shot blew up the ''Hood's'' ammunition magazine, breaking her keel and splitting her in half. While her bow was ''pointed straight up in the air and sinking,'' her forward turret fired off one last shot, remaining DefiantToTheEnd. |
| 31 | * Less known than the famed sinking of the ''Bismarck'' was the battle of the Northern Cape. The battleship ''Scharnhorst'' was the last serious threat to Arctic convoys to Russia. It took one battleship (HMS ''Duke of York''), one heavy cruiser (HMS ''Jamaica''), three light cruisers, nine destroyers, and ten hours of pursuit, torpedoes and shelling to stop the lone battleship and sink her. Only 36 of a crew of 1,932 survived, compared to 11 dead and 11 wounded on the British side. The Commander of the detachment believed the only reason they got off relatively light was that the ''Scharnhorst'''s radar had been damaged in a convoy raid before the attack. |
| 32 | ** ''"Gentlemen, the battle against the Scharnhorst has ended in victory for us. I hope that any of you who are ever called upon to lead a ship into action against an opponent many times superior will command your ship as gallantly as the Scharnhorst was commanded today."'' -Admiral Bruce Fraser |
| 33 | * Carthage went out this way. They'd been cornered into a hopeless war against the Roman Republic, which controlled nearly the entire Mediterranean. Despite this, they held the Romans off of their city for ''three years,'' and when the walls were finally breached, forced the Romans into hand-to-hand, house-to-house combat. Carthage was destroyed, but went out like a boss. |
| 34 | * Catiline was a violent, power-mad traitor to the Roman Republic, but he certainly earned one of these. During the final battle, when he saw that all was lost, he charged deep into the enemy lines. After the battle he was found lying far from his own lines, still barely breathing, surrounded by the corpses of his foes. |
| 35 | ** The chroniclers also noted that all wounds sustained were at his front, meaning that he went down fighting and did not run from his fate. |
| 36 | * Vespasian's exit was classy: Aware that he was breathing his last, he got someone to help him out of bed - so that he could [[DiedStandingUp die]] ''[[DiedStandingUp standing up]]''. |
| 37 | ** Not only that, but he went off with [[DeadpanSnarker some really snarky]] last words: ''"Oh, [[PrecisionFStrike dammit]] — I think I'm becoming a god."'' (Ut puto, deus fio.) [[note]] To explain: Back in those days Roman emperors (beginning with Caesar, or Divus Julius, deified Julius as he was known by Romans after his death) were considered godly - but only after their death. His comment most likely lampshades the absurdity of this belief.[[/note]] |
| 38 | * Constantine XI, arguably the last Roman emperor, qualifies. Despite a hopeless situation, he refused to surrender Constantinople to the Turks, despite the Turks offering to spare his life if he did so. When the Turks broke through the walls, he led a last hopeless charge against the invaders, stripping off his imperial clothes so that nothing would distinguish him from his soldiers. He died with them and is likely to have been buried in the same marked grave as they. |
| 39 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enver_Pasha Enver Pasha]] the Turkish Nationalist. He almost certainly had some part in the Armenian Genocide/Massacres, and some have blamed him and the other two Pashas (Talaat and Djemal, his closest comrades) of leading the Ottoman Empire to its dissolution after UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. But he was charismatic, clever, and brave. He fled to Russia and joined the anti-Red rebels in the Caucasus. When this was hopeless he made a [[SuicideByCop last charge]]. Tales say he died close to the legendary birthplace of the Turkish race. Thus he died exactly as he should have. He was too wicked to die of old age and too much cunning to be hanged. |
| 40 | * [[http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=2531138 Marian Fisher]], age 13, to the crazy man that would kill her and other Amish girls: "Shoot me first!" |
| 41 | * James Connolly, signer of Poblacht na [=hEireann=], and leader of Irish independence. He was badly wounded, and executed by the British, having to be tied to a chair as his wounds prevented him from standing. His death gained huge sympathy and support for the nascent Irish Republican movement, and also brought new members to the ranks of the IRA. |
| 42 | ** According to at least one story, it's even more of a CMOA - he is said to have whispered/mouthed "Fire" just before the firing squad opened up. |
| 43 | * Nathan Hale, American martyr-spy of UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. As he was about to be hanged, he proclaimed, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country." |
| 44 | * Dian Wei, Cao Cao's bodyguard during the Three Kingdom wars, faced down a large number of soldiers, and he took forever to die. When he was finally killed, the soldiers beheaded him, just to make sure he was dead, and STILL weren't sure he was dead. |
| 45 | ** Fu Tong was surrounded by Wu warriors and was asked to surrender during the retreat from Yi Ling. His reply: |
| 46 | --->''Shall I, an esteemed General of Han, bow down to the curs of Wu?'' And then he charged into their lines (and died). |
| 47 | * 300 Spartans at Thermopylae went up against (accounts vary, but most estimates put it at) a couple hundred thousand Persians, knew they were going to die going in, and still considered it an honor to go. According to the records, they took some 20,000 Persians with them, including a good percentage of the legendary Immortals. That's a kill ratio of approximately 67:1 (There were about 5000 other Greeks, but most left before the very end, with the Spartans, their 900 non-combatant slaves and a party of 700 Thespians covering their escape.) '''''Massively''''' aided by terrain; the Greeks were holding a narrow pass, so despite the lopsided numbers overall the actual fighting was done by approximately equal forces, and when the Persians finally managed to flank them it was pretty much all over. |
| 48 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Saragarhi The Battle of]] [[http://www.badassoftheweek.com/21sikhs.html Saragarhi]]: ''21'' Sikh soldiers of the 36th Sikh Regiment in [[UsefulNotes/TheRaj British Indian]] Army were stationed at a remote and lightly fortified outpost on the northern Indian border. The outpost itself was primarily a signaling outpost, linking two larger British forts by line of sight to its east and west. On the 12th of September 1897, ''10,000'' Afghan and Orakzai tribesmen marched southward to take this outpost as a prelude to invading British India. The outpost's commanding officer, Ishar Singh gave his men a choice; to evacuate to one of the nearby British forts and fight the enemy there, or to stand and fight to the death. Knowing that they were probably all that stood between the enemy and the heartland of the British Raj, all 20 elected to stay. Though outnumbered ''roughly 500:1'', [[note]]Using modern estimates, the Greeks at Thermopylae were outnumbered roughly 200:1 during their last stand[[/note]] the Sikhs managed to hold off the tribesmen for the entire day. Some amazing feats of heroism include denying two attempts by the tribesmen to ZergRush the main gate, in an era where the [[MoreDakka machine-gun]] hadn't been invented, and Ishar Singh [[YouShallNotPass single-handedly holding the breached outer walls]] in order to allow his men to fall back to the inner fortifications. He died valiantly in hand-to-hand combat against a horde of rifle-swinging tribesmen, armed only with a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpan Kirpan dagger]]. We know this as the Sikh contingent's signalman, Gurmukh Singh, was reporting to the other fort the events of the battle blow-by-blow while sniping enemy soldiers from the outpost's signal tower. Eventually, Gurmukh was the ''[[EverybodysDeadDave last of the 21 left alive by the end of the day]]''. He continued to snipe tribesmen from the signal tower, which the enemy had [[KillItWithFire set on fire]] in order to kill him. Once he ran out of ammunition, it is said that he [[SerialEscalation fixed his bayonet]] [[DefiantToTheEnd and charged the enemy]], yelling the regimental [[BattleCry battle-cry]] "Bole So Nihal, Sat Sri Akal!!" [[note]]Translation: ''"He who cries 'God is Truth' is ever victorious!"''[[/note]] He is personally credited with killing 20 of the enemy before succumbing. The number of tribesmen the Sikhs [[TakingYouWithMe took with them ranges between 180 to 800]]. Thanks to their sacrifice, the tribesmen lost the element of surprise and were turned back when they tried to attack the next fort (which was able to receive reinforcements the day after the battle). When relief forces finally reclaimed the outpost, they found that not a single Sikh had an unexpended round of ammunition. The average soldier of the day carried 400 rounds each. When their story was brought before British Parliament, it was received with a standing ovation. Each Sikh posthumously received the Indian equivalent of the Victoria Cross, and to this day Sikhs around the world celebrate the 12th of September as ''Saragarhi Day'', to commemorate their last stand. |
| 49 | * The Battle of Wizna. 700 Poles versus 42,200 Nazis with 350 tanks and a bit over 600 pieces of artillery. The Polish commander, Władysław Raginis swore that he would not leave his post alive. The Polish army held out for three days. |
| 50 | ** They would have held out longer but Raginis, seeing that no help is coming, decided to save his soldiers by allowing them to surrender, but not before blowing himself up with a grenade, so as not to break the vow. |
| 51 | * Janusz Korczak might have been a case. Though nobody knows for sure what he did in the moment of death, composer Władysław Szpilman had made an educated guess based on what he had seen the man do before. To elaborate: Korczak was a Polish doctor and educator who had built and owned a Jewish orphanage. When the Nazis came to deport the 200 orphans with their Jewish teacher Stefania Wilczyńska, Korczak was given the option to leave. He instead walked with the teacher and all of his children to the concentration camp, telling them that they were on an excursion, telling them jokes and making them sing. He got gassed with most of the orphans and Szpilman (who had seen his deportation) later wrote down in his book: ''"Surely the 'Old Doctor' whispered with his dying breath in the gas chamber, as the Zyklon strangled the children's throats and fear replaced happiness and hope in the children's hearts: "Don't worry, this is nothing, children." so that at least his small pupils would not be scared of passing from life to death:"'' [[note]]Bestimmt hat der ‚Alte Doktor‘ noch in der Gaskammer, als das Zyklon schon die kindlichen Kehlen würgte und in den Herzen der Waisen Angst an die Stelle von Freude und Hoffnung trat, mit letzter Anstrengung geflüstert: ‚Nichts, das ist nichts, Kinder‘ um wenigstens seinen kleinen Zöglingen den Schrecken des Übergangs vom Leben in den Tod zu ersparen.[[/note]] |
| 52 | * Decorations for valor in combat tend to be this. Among those that have earned the Medal of Honor (USA), more than half of them died while doing the deeds that earned them the medal. |
| 53 | * Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, where he ended Napoleon's hopes to invade England. After being shot and having a lung pierced and his back broken by a French sniper, he was helped downstairs to the ship surgeon by two of his men but first stopped them so he could give advice to the man handling the tiller, and did his best through the whole trip to not give away how injured he was and cause his crew to lose morale. His last words upon being informed of the British victory: "Thank God, I have done my duty." |
| 54 | ** Also Spanish admiral and BadassBookworm Cosme Damian Churruca, who in the same battle suffered a CruelAndUnusualDeath via [[AnArmAndALeg having his legs ripped off by a VERY well-placed cannon shot]], [[NervesOfSteel but still did what he could to give instructions until he bled to death.]] |
| 55 | * Boy Seaman 1st Class Jack Cornwell, the youngest posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross, got one of these at the Battle of Jutland whilst serving aboard the HMS ''Chester''. On the morning of the battle, ''Chester'' was jumped by four ''Kaiserliche Marine'' cruisers. Cornwell stayed at his 5.5-inch gun, despite sustaining mortal wounds. He remained at his post, despite enormous steel shards through his chest, for fifteen minutes. His citation, from Admiral David Beatty, reads: "the instance of devotion to duty by Boy (1st Class) John Travers Cornwell who was mortally wounded early in the action, but nevertheless remained standing alone at a most exposed post, quietly awaiting orders till the end of the action, with the gun's crew dead and wounded around him. He was under 16½ years old. I regret that he has since died, but I recommend his case for special recognition in justice to his memory and as an acknowledgment of the high example set by him." |
| 56 | * Casey Jones, who became a folk hero on the level of Davy Crockett after sacrificing himself trying to save his train from crashing into another. He saved the lives of everyone else on the train, becoming the incident's only fatality, and according to who you believe his hands were still tightly clutching the brake and whistle cord when his body was recovered. |
| 57 | * At [[RememberTheAlamo the Alamo]], 200-odd soldiers defended the mission against Santa Anna's 2400-strong army for 11 days before being slaughtered. |
| 58 | ** Davy Crockett marshaled the Texan forces to a heroic stand after the commander, William Travis, was prematurely slain at the beginning of the battle. Though the Mexican forces took the fort, a lot of them fell in the process. Crockett was said to be among the last to fall; he and his party of adventurers from Tennessee dying holding a small hill within the fort. |
| 59 | ** William Barrett Travis, though he was killed very early having been shot in the head, he sat up in the dirt and saw a sword of a Mexican officer coming down at him. With the last of his strength, on his knees, he fenced with the Mexican officer and ran the man through before allowing himself to expire. |
| 60 | ** Jim Bowie, lying in a bed in the infirmary and so ill he could barely stand, killed several of the invading Mexican soldiers with a pair of pistols and his trademark knife, before being overwhelmed and slain. |
| 61 | * A somewhat confusing example is presented by US Admiral Daniel Callaghan, who led the US fleet during the First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. On the one hand, he took on a much more powerful Japanese squadron and prevented the shelling of the Henderson Field and the landing of Japanese supplies and reinforcements, while having most of his fleet sunk or crippled and having himself killed. After action evaluation of the battle showed, however, that he made serious mistakes before and during the battle which contributed to the near-catastrophe of the battle for the US, which was prevented largely by the loss of nerve by the Japanese admiral who decided to pull out and abort his mission after the battle. Still, the aggressive (if faulty) actions by Callaghan did contribute to the Japanese decision and the man died in the battle to boot, so the negative evaluations were suppressed and the US admiral was publicly touted as a great hero. |
| 62 | * Fabrizio Quattrocchi was an Italian security guard working in Iraq. In 2004, he was captured by terrorists who forced him to dig his own grave and kneel beside it wearing a hood as they prepared to film his death. He defied them by trying to pull off the hood and shouting: "I'll show you how an Italian dies!" right before he was shot. |
| 63 | * Sikh martyrs Sahibzada Fateh Singh and his brother, Sahibzada Zorawar Singh. They were executed at ages 7 and 9 for refusing to convert to Islam during the era of persecution of non-Muslims by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb. Even during their execution (which consisted of them being bricked up alive within a city wall), they repeatedly defied orders from their executioner, saying they would rather face death than compromise their beliefs. The people who actually carried out the order seemed to feel for the two; instead of completely enclosing them within the wall, the wall was only built up to shoulder-height and the boys died by decapitation instead of what would have been. The person responsible was later killed for his crimes. This could also be an example of FaceDeathWithDignity. |
| 64 | * Marshal Ney, Napoleon's NumberTwo, was [[KangarooCourt tried for treason after Napoleon's second exile]] and sentenced to death by firing squad. He was given a last request, and he asked to be allowed to ''command his own firing squad.'' |
| 65 | ** We are talking about the man who, during the horror that was the retreat from Moscow, singlehandedly formed the rearguard at one point. He walked backward out of Russia, picking up abandoned muskets and using them to hold off the Cossacks, and was the last survivor to enter a French garrison. He earned the right to die as he chose. |
| 66 | ** During the trial his lawyer André Dupin tried to get him off on the grounds that his hometown Sarrelouis (now Saarlouis) was now Prussian, not French and thus he could not be tried for treason. Ney's response? "I am French and will remain French." |
| 67 | ** Chilean ColonelBadass Jose Miguel Carrera did exactly the same request when he was about to be executed in the same way. When denied, he merely said "It's all right, gentlemen. Then, please aim to the spot where I'll place my hand on". Then he put his hand over his own heart, and his wish was granted. |
| 68 | ** Another one of Napoleon's Marshals, Joachim Murat, was shot after a rushed trial as well; he commanded the fire as well but told the firing squad to spare his face. |
| 69 | *** Even more awesome for what he did to earn that trial and execution: when Napoleon returned from his first exile, and before he could return to Paris and start his own last war, Murat led his Kingdom of Naples in an attempt at unifying Italy, ''conquering almost everything south of the Po before being stopped''. Also preventing the Austrians from invading France from the south... And laying the ground for the pro-unification insurrections and the UsefulNotes/WarsOfItalianIndependence. |
| 70 | * Petronius Arbiter, Nero's sometime style-consultant, was eventually ordered to commit suicide. Where most people included the [[JustTheFirstCitizen Emperor]] in their will in the hopes that he would leave their actual heirs something, Petronius included an addendum detailing all of Nero's sexual perversions. The fashionable thing to do was to do a full-blown Creator/{{Socrates}} imitation, complete with [[FaceDeathWithDignity high-minded conversation and hemlock]]. What did Petronius do? Throw a party for his closest friends, drink, sing bawdy songs, smash his most valuable possessions to keep them out of the hands of [[TheCaligula Nero]], and, as the night wore on, let his blood out little by little. |
| 71 | ** Speaking of Creator/{{Socrates}}, his death surely qualifies. |
| 72 | * Rasputin is probably best known for his (sadly fictitious) refusal to go softly into that good night. In fact, he's the TropeNamer for RasputinianDeath. |
| 73 | * The real-life LadyOfWar [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakano_Takeko Takeko Nakano]], along with her mother and her younger sister Yuuko, led an all-female squadron known as the "Joshitai" ("Women's Army") during the Battle of Aizu in 1868, the last major conflict between the Meiji government and remnants of the shogunate that spelled the end of the age of the samurai. After forcing a cannon brigade to let her squad fight alongside them by ''threatening to kill herself right on top of their leader'', she charged headlong into the battle and killed as many as six Meiji soldiers by herself before being fatally wounded. As she laid bleeding, her final request to Yuuko was to cut her head off, so the enemy couldn't take it as a trophy. Which she did. A monument would be built in her honor at her final resting place at the Houkai Temple, where her naginata also lies in tribute to her daring LastStand. |
| 74 | * Vince Coleman was a train dispatcher in Halifax in 1917. While on the job one day, he learned that a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_explosion munitions ship was on fire in the harbor]]. He might have had time to get to safety, but he also knew that a passenger train was due to arrive in the city at any minute and that if he didn't [[HeroicSacrifice stay at his post and warn them, hundreds of more people were going to die.]] He succeeded. His accepted last message read... |
| 75 | -->''Hold up the train. Ammunition ship afire in harbour making for Pier 6 and will explode. Guess this will be my last message. Good-bye, boys.'' |
| 76 | * On June 27, 1988, train driver André Tanguy was waiting to depart from Paris' Gare de Lyon rail station when he saw that an inbound runaway train was headed straight towards him and his fully-loaded train. Tanguy grabbed his radio and began ordering his passengers to evacuate, repeating the warning over and over again right up until the moment of impact even though this meant staying in his cab which was the first thing in the oncoming train's path. [[HeroicSacrifice Tanguy died instantly when the other train hit his, but his actions saved countless lives.]] |
| 77 | * A cruel subversion happened in the case of the Columbine shootings. Misty Bernall believed that her daughter [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassie_Bernall Cassie]], one of the victims, stood up to one of the boys and when he asked her if she believed in God, she said "Yes" - she even wrote a book about her daughter and her last moments. However, it was later proved that poor Cassie never said that; her actual last words were [[http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/09/30/bernall "Dear God. Dear God. Why is this happening? I just want to go home."]]. It was actually another girl, Valeen Schnurr, who was asked if she believed in God because she was saying "oh God, don't let me die" (she told him she did, and when asked why said because that was the way she was raised); for reasons unknown, her assailant decided not to kill her after that and she survived. |
| 78 | * An example on a whole other scale: The Wari Civilization of pre-Columbian South America, apparently believing in the credo of 'Make Love, Not War', decided to let their ENTIRE CULTURE go out with awesome. They built the most advanced brewery the world had seen to that day, churning out 1000 liters of high-proof alcohol ''per day'', and then proceeded to throw the most outrageous party the world had ever seen - dancing, feasting, and drinking themselves into a stupor. Finally, they set fire to the brewery, tossed their cups into the inferno, and walked away in a dozen different directions, marking the disappearance of the Wari People into the annals of history. |
| 79 | * During the Spanish conquest of Mexico, the Aztecs put up a tremendous fight to defend their capital city of Tenochtitlan. Even with almost all their empire risen against them, facing weapons they could not match, and racked with diseases they had never seen, they fought to the very last. |
| 80 | * It's a stereotype to say that the Balinese make an art out of practically everything... and mass ritual suicide should not be seen as beautiful, but the ''puputan'' of the ancient Balinese royal courts belongs on this page. At the beginning of the 20th century, the Dutch Colonial Empire moved in to take control of the island. On September 14, 1906, three Dutch battalions landed on the beaches of South Bali and advanced toward the villages, finding them deserted and in flames. For two years, the Balinese fought back. Princes and their courts chose death rather than surrender. At Badung, the royal family came out in procession, stopping a hundred yards from the Dutch, whereupon the King signaled his high priest to stab him to death, while his family did the same. When the Dutch blew up Klungklung, the last and greatest palace, the King and his entire court, [[DressingToDie dressed in their most elegant garments]], purposefully marched into the gunfire. Those who were not shot stabbed themselves on the spot. Women disdainfully hurled jewels at their assassins, cheating the enemy of any sense of victory. Another royal court left their palace and paraded, singing, off the edge of a cliff. |
| 81 | * In March 2011, Wes Leonard, a high school basketball player from Michigan, [[http://abcnews.go.com/Health/HeartDisease/high-school-basketball-star-dies-court/story?id=13055595 sank a game-winning layup that helped his team complete a perfect regular season]]. He collapsed during the post-game celebration and was pronounced dead just hours later. His death was attributed to cardiac arrest brought on by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. |
| 82 | * The reason that Haiti, unlike most Latin American countries, is almost entirely black rather than mixed white, black and native, is that the indigenous inhabitants fought to the last man, and when it became clear that the whites were going to win, the surviving women, children and elderly men [[http://bradhicks.livejournal.com/436652.html committed mass suicide rather than be enslaved]]. |
| 83 | * Creator/OliverReed. Aged 61, he ended a lifetime of hellraising by [[CrazyIsCool drinking three bottles of rum and beating five sailors at arm wrestling in a bar in Malta]], then had a heart attack and died. Which, one suspects, is ''exactly'' the way he would have wanted to go. |
| 84 | * During the Virginia Tech shooting, Professor Liviu Librescu, a Jewish-Romanian national [[FinalSolution who survived the Holocaust]], [[HeroicSacrifice blocked the door to his classroom with his body]] so that his students could escape through a window. He was shot five times by the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, once fatally in the head, [[YouShallNotPass as he held the door shut]]. Only one of his 23 students failed to escape. |
| 85 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Corey Giles Corey]] was a farmer accused of witchcraft during the Salem witch trials. When he was tried, he refused to plead in regard to his guilt. The court didn't take this well and had him strip naked while they slowly crushed him to death. As they were crushing him, they kept asking about his guilt and if he could name others who were possible witches (if he confessed, they would have confiscated his lands and left his family with nothing, and if he had pled his innocence, he would have been officially stripped of his Christianity, which would also leave his family with nothing). His response? "More weight!" |
| 86 | ** It goes beyond that. If he'd confessed, his life would've been spared, but he would've forfeited his property as he would no longer be considered a Christian. Denying the charges would have resulted in his conviction and execution because the system was a KangarooCourt, but his property would still be confiscated. Dying under interrogation, on the other hand, meant he was still considered a Christian and his sons could inherit his property. So by refusing to enter any plea at all, he saved his family from poverty at the cost of his own life. (The drawback was that his wife, Martha, was executed as well.) |
| 87 | * In 1993 during the Battle of Mogadishu (which was dramatized in ''Film/BlackHawkDown'') Delta Force snipers Gary Gordon and Randy Shughart voluntarily dropped into a dangerous combat zone to protect the wounded crewmen of a downed Blackhawk helicopter. Gordon and Shughart, using only their personal weapons and training, fought their way to the crash site and defended it against Somalis who were intent on capturing or killing the helicopter crew. They successfully held off the attackers until they ran out of ammo, after which the two of them were overrun and killed by the attacking Somalis. Before their sacrifice, Gordon and Shughart managed to kill 24 enemy combatants and severely wounded many more (several of whom would later die of their injuries). Both men would posthumously be awarded the Medal of Honor. |
| 88 | ** They are credited with saving the life of Pilot Mike Durant. |
| 89 | ** It does however somewhat also count as a SenselessSacrifice as Mike Durant was captured by the Somali militia anyway. |
| 90 | * "Mexicans! I die for a noble and just cause: the independence and liberty of Mexico. May my blood put an end to the disgraces of my new fatherland. ¡Viva Mexico!" - Maximilian of Habsburg, before he was executed. Prior to that he paid every man who was on the firing squad a golden Imperial (Mexican Empire) coin (as was tradition according to the Habsburgs) and told them to shoot him in the heart so his mother could recognize him in Heaven. His wish was granted. [[note]]Unfortunately, when his body arrived in Vienna (where his mother would receive him), [[TearJerker his face was horribly disfigured,]] his beard cut off by souvenir-hunters.[[/note]] |
| 91 | * Yoni Netanyahu, brother of [[UsefulNotes/BenjaminNetanyahu Benjamin]], was a Lt. Commander in the Israeli army when a group of terrorists hijacked a plane headed to Israel, flew it to Entebbe, Uganda, and released everyone but the Israelis (and the French pilot, who refused to leave while some of his passengers were still prisoners, thus earning his own CMOA) and made their demands. The IDF decided to attempt a rescue. Now, let's be clear a rescue mission of this type and magnitude had never been pulled off successfully by anyone. Ever. A team of commandos, led by Netanyahu, planned, practiced, and carried out the rescue within a week. Of the 106 captives, all but four were rescued. Only one commando died during the mission--Yoni Netanyahu. |
| 92 | * The Battle Off Samar, one of several actions that made up the larger Battle of Leyte Gulf. October 25th 1944, Commander Ernest E. Evans of the destroyer USS ''Johnston'', who already had a well-deserved reputation as a badass captain commanding a BadassCrew on a badass ship that always charged straight into a fight, attacked a Japanese battleship fleet alone, to protect Taffy 3, his battle group. ''Johnston'' rushed at the overwhelming enemy fleet, torpedoed a cruiser, set several others on fire, but took severe damage in the process and had to pull back. They immediately encountered Taffy 3's other destroyers and destroyer escorts making their own [[HeroicSacrifice torpedo run on the Japanese heavies]]. Despite ''Johnston'' having suffered critical damage (so bad that lookouts aboard USS ''Samuel B. Roberts'' could only recognize her by the hull number on her bow), Captain Evans immediately gave the order to reverse course and join the new attack. When a 14-inch shell from a battleship blew up ''Johnston'''s bridge, Evans carried wounded men to relative safety, ignored his own wounds (and the fact that all of his clothes had been torn/burned off by the blast, including his skivvies) and moved to the auxiliary conn, continuing to drive and fight his ship. When another shell wrecked the auxiliary conn, the naked, burned, and bleeding Evans moved to the quarterdeck and shouted instructions down a hatch to sailors who were turning the rudder by hand. When it was clear that USS ''Johnston'' was going down, he gave the order to abandon ship, and was last seen accounting for each of his men as they jumped over the side, still buck-naked and bleeding, telling them that they kicked ass and he was proud to be their Captain. It is unclear if he got off the ship or not. ''Johnston'' had inflicted so much damage on the enemy fleet that a Japanese destroyer was order to shell her at point-blank range just to make sure. That destroyer's captain mustered his own crew at the rail and [[WorthyOpponent saluted USS ''Johnston'']] as her burning wreckage slipped beneath the waves. Evans was never seen again, and was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously (no one knows how, where, or when he died, but his body was never found regardless). |
| 93 | ** Likewise, the even smaller destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts sank in the same battle, but not before earning the title of "the destroyer escort that fought like a battleship." It dealt heavy damage to two cruisers: ships it had no business fighting at all. |
| 94 | *** Individually, Gunner's Mate 1st Class Paul Carr, the Gun Captain of ''Samuel B. Roberts'''s aft 5-inch gun mount had his own. The ship was on fire, sinking, out of torpedoes, and critically short of ammunition. Gun crews were shooting phosphorus illumination shells, inert practice rounds, anything. The ship's fire control platform had just received word from the magazines that their last two 5-inch high-explosive warshots had been sent to Carr's mount when a malfunction in Gun 52 caused one of them to cook off in the breach. Other sailors immediately braved incoming shells and a raging fire inside the turret to find the whole gun crew dead except [=GM1=] Carr. He was disemboweled, had lost both of his legs, and was still clutching the ship's last 5-inch warshot. Despite his horrific injuries, Carr refused to be removed from the shattered, burning turret and instead begged them to help him load the gun. The Navy would later name a ship, USS ''Carr'', FFG-52, after him. |
| 95 | * The destroyers [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Acasta_%28H09%29 HMS Acasta]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Ardent_%28H41%29 HMS Ardent]] engaged the German battleships ''Scharnhorst'' and ''Gneisenau'' off the coast of Norway on June 8, 1940. Both ships were sunk with only a single crewmember from each surviving[[note]]More actually survived the sinking, but died from exposure due to Royal Navy's failure to mount a timely rescue operation[[/note]], but not before causing severe damage to ''Scharnhorst'', causing her to turn back and ensuring the safe evacuation of Allied soldiers from Norway. As the destroyers sank, the crew of ''Gneisenau'' lowered their flag to half-mast [[WorthyOpponent to salute the bravery of the destroyers' crew]]. |
| 96 | * Operation: Red Wings was a SEAL operation in Afghanistan that went horribly wrong. It was the deadliest day for the U.S Navy [=SEALs=] since Vietnam, and the second deadliest day in their entire history, when three [=SEALs=] were killed in an ambush and eight others in a MH-47 that was shot down along with the eight crewmen. But the ambushed [=SEALs=] went down fighting. Lieutenant Michael Murphy knowingly left cover to get a clear message out to headquarters, ran back to cover and died fighting, for which he earned the Medal of Honor. Petty Officer Second Class Matthew Axelson was found to have fought to his last magazine, despite being injured by an RPG blast. Gunner's Mate Second Class Danny Dietz fought on despite being wounded until he was killed. Averted with Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell. Despite being shot several times, then blown up with an RPG right off of a cliff, he survived. |
| 97 | * Master-at-Arms Second Class Michael A Monsoor; recipient of the Medal of Honor: |
| 98 | -->"For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Automatic Weapons Gunner for Naval Special Warfare Task Group Arabian Peninsula, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM on 29 September 2006. As a member of a combined SEAL and Iraqi Army sniper overwatch element, tasked with providing early warning and stand-off protection from a rooftop in an insurgent held sector of Ar Ramadi, Iraq, Petty Officer Monsoor distinguished himself by his exceptional bravery in the face of grave danger. In the early morning, insurgents prepared to execute a coordinated attack by reconnoitering the area around the element's position. Element snipers thwarted the enemy's initial attempt by eliminating two insurgents. The enemy continued to assault the element, engaging them with a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire. As enemy activity increased, Petty Officer Monsoor took position with his machine gun between two teammates on an outcropping of the roof. While the [=SEALs=] vigilantly watched for enemy activity, an insurgent threw a hand grenade from an unseen location, which bounced off Petty Officer Monsoor's chest and landed in front of him. Although only he could have escaped the blast, Petty Officer Monsoor chose instead to protect his teammates. Instantly and without regard for his own safety, he threw himself onto the grenade to absorb the force of the explosion with his body, saving the lives of his two teammates. By his undaunted courage, fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty in the face of certain death, Petty Officer Monsoor gallantly gave his life for his country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service." |
| 99 | ** Like Seaman Sheean above, Master-at-Arms Monsoor's badassery will be commemorated by the naming of the second ship of the ''Zumwalt''-class of Guided Missile Destroyers after him. |
| 100 | * Many stars inevitably die this way: while red dwarfs, the smallest type of star will simply fade away into black dwarfs, Sunlike stars will puff out their outer layers to create a planetary nebula, leaving behind a white dwarf (this will happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years); and the most massive stars explode into supernovae, leaving behind either a neutron star or a black hole depending on how big the supernova was. |
| 101 | ** And then there are the pair-instability hypernovae. These deaths are reserved for stars greater than a hundred solar masses. They are so huge that they depend on the pressure of their radiation to avoid collapsing. Eventually, their cores get so hot that the radiation pressure tapers off because it starts producing electron-positron pairs, causing the star to collapse. Since the star is still almost entirely hydrogen and helium, the result is the universe's biggest thermonuclear explosion, as the star burns through its entire supply of fuel in a matter of seconds, halting its collapse and then exploding, leaving nothing behind except a glowing cloud of nickel slowly decaying into iron. No white dwarf, no neutron star, no black hole, just a huge cloud expanding out into the universe from where the star used to be. |
| 102 | *** [[SerialEscalation And then]] there are Gamma Ray Bursts. Similar to the above, but when some stars begin to collapse into black holes, they do so with such force that external material is pressed outward into a spinning disk. When that disk collapses and the star explodes, it releases concentrated beams of plasma and gamma radiation out from its rotational poles at the speed of light. At that moment, they release more energy in a few seconds than our sun will ever produce in its entire lifetime. Some gamma-ray bursts can outshine entire galaxies. |
| 103 | * Ian Bazalgette during [=WW2=], was a Lancaster pilot and was very accurate during bombing raids. In his final mission, he was flying with a more experienced pilot to spot for the bombers. His partner was almost immediately killed from Anti-Air guns. His gunner was also injured in the fire and he lost all the engines on the right side of the plane and it also caught fire. Bazalgette successfully navigated through the barrage and spotted the bombing. After this, he lost one of the engines in the left side of the plane as the fire spread. He ordered his men to jump out and save themselves while he tried to land it. Everyone bailed except for his injured gunner. At this point, he lost his last engine and glided the Lancaster into a smooth landing outside the city. He picked up his gunner and tried to get him out of the plane. Just as he was about to get out of the plane, it exploded, killing him instantly. |
| 104 | * Among the Aztecs of Mexico, one way of sacrificing brave enemy warriors was to put them into gladiatorial combats where they, armed with mock weapons, would face veteran [[EliteMook Jaguar and Eagle Knights]] in single combat until they finally fell. This blew up in the Aztecs' faces when they tried it on a [[FourStarBadass Tlaxcaltec war leader named Tlahuicol]]. He slew no less than ''eight'' Jaguar and Eagle Knights with a bladeless sword and his bare hands before the Aztecs offered him a noble rank and high command in their own army. He scornfully responded that if what he'd seen was the best the Aztecs could do, he'd rather go to Huitzilopochtli than command cowards like these. After that he was finally, ultimately slain. If Aztecs went to [[Myth/NorseMythology Valhalla]], that man got a seat up next to Odin himself. |
| 105 | * [[UsefulNotes/MusashiboBenkei Saito no Musashibo Benkei]] was a warrior-monk in feudal Japan famous for his ogre-like size (over 6'6") and for winning nearly 1000 duels before meeting his better. He met his end guarding the only bridge to the main gate of his lord's castle, while his lord committed seppuku to deny his traitorous brother the privilege of killing him. Despite having an army to deal with a single monk, the approaching army was wary of charging Benkei. Their trepidation was soon justified as Benkei easily drove off the first wave of attackers. Seeing that he would not be easily removed, the assaulting general had his archers fire upon the stationary monk. Benkei just stood in a ready stance, [[NoSell apparently unfazed by the arrows]]. So, not sure what else to do, they charged again, repeating the cycle several times, with Benkei [[OneManArmy singlehandedly killing over 300 soldiers]] and becoming something of a human pincushion of arrows. Eventually in one of the lulls between waves, it was noticed that Benkei was awfully still, more so than normal. Approaching, they found him [[DiedStandingUp dead on his feet]][[note]]Benkei is the UrExample of DiedStandingUp by the way[[/note]], finally having succumbed to his injuries. By the time they got to Benkei's lord, he had long since carried out his ritual suicide. |
| 106 | * Lyricist Howard Ashman worked hard to help start the Disney Renaissance while battling [=AIDS=]. He worked from home when he got weaker and eventually succumbed in 1991. He was commemorated in the credits of ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' for "(giving) [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 a Mermaid]] her voice and a Beast his soul." |
| 107 | * In 1997, Randy California of the band Spirit was swimming in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}} with his son, when they got caught in a rip current. California pushed his son toward the shore. His son survived, but California was swept out to sea. His body was never found. [[note]]Tragically this is somewhat subverted. Rip currents are scary but easily survivable if you remain calm and know how to deal with them. E.g. you should swim parallel to the shore to get out of the current whereas fighting it will just tire you out and get you killed.[[/note]] |
| 108 | ** Three years later, singer Kirsty [=MacColl=], on holiday in Mexico with her family, sacrificed herself by swimming towards a speeding powerboat to push her son out of the way. |
| 109 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Bohemia John the Blind]], king of Bohemia, charged in the [[UsefulNotes/TheHundredYearsWar battle of Crécy]] against the English, while being [[HandicappedBadass blind]] for nearly a decade, with words: ''"Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs from a fight."'' |
| 110 | * [[http://www.cnn.com/2014/01/09/world/asia/pakistan-boy-stops-suicide-bomber/index.html?iref=allsearch Aitazaz Hassan Bangash]], a ninth-grader in Pakistan, grappled with a suicide bomber trying to enter his school, saving the hundreds of students and faculty who had gathered for an assembly. |
| 111 | * [[http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/21/8-year-old-fire-hero/4717669/ 8 year old Tyler Doohan]] got 6 people out of a trailer fire in New York, then died going back for a 7th. |
| 112 | * Captain Ted Thompson and First Officer William Tansky from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261 Alaska Airlines Flight 261]] count as such. On January 31, 2000, their MD-83's horizontal stabilizer suffered a catastrophic failure of its jackscrew. The failure put the jet in a nose down position and inverted the plane. Both Thompson and Tansky fought to the end to recover the aircraft, even attempting to fly the airliner inverted. Sadly, it wasn't enough to save the plane or its 88 passengers and crew, but an earlier action of theirs likely saved lives; before trying to correct the problem, they asked to be routed out over the water so that people on the ground wouldn't be in danger if they lost control and crashed. |
| 113 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Vierne Louis Vierne]] had mentioned a few times that he wanted to die doing what he loved, playing the organ. He was born with cataracts (he would be legally blind nowadays) and later was run over by a carriage, severely injuring his leg and taking a year to recover full function, but managed to become one of France's premier organists and composers. On June 2nd 1937, he was finishing a recital on the organ of Notre Dame de Paris, when he collapsed, either from a heart attack or stroke. His foot slipped and landed on the Low E pedal, the organ bellowing through the cathedral as he breathed his last. |
| 114 | * [[Creator/RaulJulia Raúl Julia's]] final appearance in ''Film/StreetFighter''. His motivation for starring in the role of [[BigBad General M. Bison]] was because his children were huge fans of [[Franchise/StreetFighter the video games]], and it allowed him to combine his two passions in his final days; his acting and his children. [[MoneyDearBoy It also got him a nice big paycheck]] to help provide for his family after his death. He absolutely ''[[LargeHam devoured the scenery]]'', visibly [[HamAndCheese had so much fun doing the role]] few would ''ever'' guess he was physically weak and sick during the performance (other than being somewhat pale), and psycho-crushed that film from what would've been a bland loose adaptation to [[SoBadItsGood an experience few would ever forget]], going out on [[https://youtu.be/PBc7yQXrP9c?t=19 possibly one of the greatest last lines]] of any actor of the era. [[InMemoriam Vaya con Dios indeed, Raúl.]] |
| 115 | -->"For I beheld Satan, as he ''FELL '''FROM HEAVEN!'' LIKE ''LIIIIIIIIIIIGHTNIIIIIIIIIIING!'''''" |
| 116 | * [[UsefulNotes/RichardIII Richard. The. Third]]. He was the last English king to die in battle (Bosworth, if you're wondering), and he went down fighting. He got very close to killing Henry Tudor and actually managed to take down one of Henry Tudor's six-foot-two bodyguards even though he was only five-foot-eight and suffered from scoliosis (an extremely painful condition that causes curvature of the spine.) |
| 117 | * UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar may have had one. Depending on which claim you believe he either: |
| 118 | ** Used his last moments to [[WhatTheHellHero guilt]] Brutus, his close friend who had betrayed and helped murder him (hence the famous phrase EtTuBrute). |
| 119 | ** Spitefully and defiantly shouted that the same would happen to Brutus. |
| 120 | ** Pulled his toga over his head so that he would FaceDeathWithDignity. |
| 121 | ** Grabbed the arm of the first assassin to stab him and shouted [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction "Damn you Casca, what are you doing?!" in an annoyed manner]]. |
| 122 | * At El Alamein [[UsefulNotes/BernardLawMontgomery Montgomery]] came very close to ''annihilating'' the Axis forces in North Africa. He failed because five Italian divisions[[note]]132nd and 133rd armoured Ariete and Littorio, 102nd motorized Trento, 17th infantry Pavia and the 185th airborne Folgore[[/note]] fought four separate rear-guard actions (Pavia and Folgore fighting together) to the last round, holding the Eight Army long enough for the rest of the Italian troops and the majority of the Afrika Korps to retreat. |
| 123 | * The final 18 months of Music/DavidBowie's life were marked by a struggle with cancer. It was kept a private matter and in the final weeks of his life he not only saw a stage musical he co-wrote, ''Lazarus'', have an off-Broadway world premiere, but released ''Music/BlackstarAlbum'', an album he specifically wrote and recorded to serve as a GrandFinale for his career. It arrived in stores on January 8, 2016 (his 69th birthday), '''two days''' before his death. |
| 124 | * As the Yugoslavian National Liberation Army member [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan_Filipovic Stjepan Filipovic]] was about to be hanged by the Axis forces, he shouted the Partisan motto [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_to_fascism,_freedom_to_the_people "Death to fascism, freedom to the people"]] and then raised his arms in a mix of a CrucifiedHeroShot and communist clenched fist salute. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stjepan_Stevo_Filipovic.jpg The gesture was caught in a now very famous photo.]] |
| 125 | * Nearly a decade before the aforementioned moment with Liviu Librescu and the Virginia Tech shooting, there was homeroom teacher, Shannon Wright, who sacrificed her own life in the 1998 Westside Middle School shooting in Jonesboro, Arkansas by protecting a student by shielding her with her own body. Making her death all the more tragic is that she was ''set to retire'' the previous year to be a stay-at-home mother to her young son, only to stay one more year [[TearJerker because of how much she loved teaching.]] |
| 126 | * In the event of an actual [[WorldWarIII nuclear exchange]], any soldier on the frontline of the NATO alliance would have one of these by default. Every soldier was trained to perform a set series of tasks in the less than an hour they were expected to live before they were annihilated by the enemy's conventional or nuclear forces. All the while knowing that everyone they knew was likely already dead. |
| 127 | * Korean Admiral Yi Sun-Sin got a cool one during the invasion of Japan into his homeland. His fleet was blockading a port taken by the Japanese, but enemy reinforcements were on their way. Yi went away with a part of his fleet to meet the enemy reinforcements. The odds were against him were about 150 to 500 Japanese. After a battle taking most of the night, the Japanese tried to run. Yi ordered his ships to pursue, beating the drum himself to urge the rowers to row ever faster. They overtook them ship by ship, firing at them with their cannons, while enemy arquebuses returned fire. Then, for a bit, the drum faltered. Only his son, his nephew and a single servant saw that Yi had been struck by one of the enemy shots. They rushed to his side, asking how they could help him. He answered, with his last breath, "We are about to win the war. Keep beating the drum. Do not let anyone know of my death." His son took up the mallet and continued beating the drum. [[ElCidPloy Yi's son and nephew both took a set of Yi's armor, and took up command. For hours they commanded as if they were Yi.]] Only as the sun set, the sea filled with wrecks, and a Chinese commander sailed his flagship to Yi to invite him to celebrate, the fleet learned that Yi had died. It was the last naval battle of the war. 300 Japanese ships were destroyed or captured. |
| 128 | * Frank Luke, a United States Army Air Service Lieutenant, is credited as one of the greatest [[AcePilot ace pilots]] in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI. Between September 12 and September 29, 1918, Luke was credited with shooting down 14 German balloons and four airplanes. His final flight took place during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Acting against his commanding officer, Frank took off into the skies above France deep behind enemy lines. He managed to single-handedly shoot down three enemy zeppelins, but was seriously wounded by a German machine gunner from a hilltop. [[{{Determinator}} Even that didn't stop him.]] After strafing a group of German soldiers, Frank landed his plane near the town of Murvaux, got 200 meters away before he collapsed, and used his final ounce of strength to fire at an approaching group of German soldiers with his pistol. He became the first airman to receive the Medal of Honor. |
| 129 | * Lauren Hill. For more details, see the "Basketball" folder under [[Heartwarming/RealLifeSports "Heartwarming Real Life Sports"]] moments, or hop on over to [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] and take a look at the page on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Hiram_vs._Mount_St._Joseph_women%27s_basketball_game the specific game]] that elevated her to a national story in the last months of 2014. |
| 130 | * Following the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Hitler's third in command and one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, his assassins retreated into the crypts of the Ss. Cyril and Methodius Cathedral in Prague. When their location was compromised by a traitor in the Czechoslovak resistance, the Nazis attempted to storm the church; there were seven Czechoslovak resistance fighters in the cathedral, but they held out against a Nazi force numbering at least 750 and armed to the teeth for ''six hours''. When it was clear they were going to be overrun, those who hadn't been killed in the battle committed suicide rather than be taken alive. |
| 131 | * [[https://www.npr.org/2019/05/01/719222196/unc-charlotte-shooting-victim-is-honored-as-a-hero-for-tackling-shooter Riley Howell]] tackled a shooter on the UNC Charlotte campus, saving the lives of several of his fellow students. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star (which he was eligible for because he was an ROTC cadet, i.e. officer trainee). |
| 132 | * During the Battle of Nagashino, Torii Suneemon, volunteered to undertake a dangerous mission behind the lines of the Takeda clan to signal Tokugawa Ieyasu's forces for aid. While he was successful, he was captured on his return mission and brought before the Takeda's leader. Suneemon was told that, if he would shout to his allies in the castle that no help was coming and they should surrender, he would be spared. When he was brought before the castle on May 16, 1575, Suneemon instead shouted to his allies that [[HoldTheLine Tokugawa's forces were on their way and to hold firm]] at the cost of his own life. |
| 133 | * At the Battle of San Lorenzo, during the Argentinian Independence War, Juan Bautista Cabral was wounded saving the life of then-colonel Jose de San Martin, who got trapped between his horse and the ground. After the battle, as he died from his wounds, as San Martin stood by the bedside, his last words were "I die happy. We've vanquished the enemy." |
| 134 | * From the Indochina Wars: |
| 135 | ** Lê Văn Tám allegedly doused himself with gasoline, set himself on fire, and ran into a guarded enemy warehouse containing fuels to destroy it. Although the veracity of the story has been doubted (mostly that the event was real, but the name was not), it's still a DyingMomentOfAwesome. |
| 136 | ** Phan Đình Giót bodily blocked an arrowslit where French gunmen were firing out in the Điện Biên Phủ campaign so that his comrades could take the stronghold. |
| 137 | ** Tô Vĩnh Diện and several other soldiers were in charge of hauling a cannon in the Điện Biên Phủ valley, for the battle of the same name. Due to the terrain, they lost their grip on the cannon and it slipped, careening dangerously out of control. Diện proceeded to let go and fling himself under the wheels of the cannon, slowing it down enough for the others to stop the cannon altogether. His last words were used to ask whether the cannon was alright.[[note]] Those cannons were actually crucial in winning the battle — and the wars — because the French were taken by surprise, as they thought the terrain would prove impossible for the Vietnamese to bring the cannons in and pull a BigDamnHeroes moment.[[/note]] |
| 138 | ** Bế Văn Đàn volunteered his shoulders as mount for a machine gun, saying, "The enemy are in front of us. Comrade, if you value me, kill them all." |
| 139 | ** Dr. Đặng Thùy Trâm, aged 27, was killed by a shot to the forehead in a LastStand and YouShallNotPass for their hospital to be evacuated. Fred Whitehurst, one of the soldiers in the attack, noted that "[Dr. Đặng] was told to surrender but laid down a field of fire. She was killed protecting her patients and nurses, fending off the heavily armed U.S. Army with an old Chinese SKS single-shot rifle." |
| 140 | * The Attack of the Dead Men. An army of 7000 German soldiers attacked a Russian-controlled fortress with poison gas, killing most of the Russians as they didn't have gas masks. When the Germans charged the fortress, 100 dying Russians decided to [[TakingYouWithMe take as many Germans down with them]] as they could and launched a countercharge. The Germans mistook the badly burned Russians for a CavalryOfTheDead, which terrified them so much they retreated and many were killed by their own traps. Although the Germans eventually took control of the area, the Attack of the Dead Men gave the Russians time to destroy the fortress before the Germans could claim it, and it left a strong impression on the Germans. The event inspired a song by ''Music/{{Sabaton}}''. |
| 141 | * Sam Simon, one of the three people who helped develop ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' along with Creator/MattGroening and Creator/JamesLBrooks, learned in 2012 that he was dying of pancreatic cancer. While he also left money for his family and for the lifelong care of his dogs, he had every penny of his vast fortune[[note]]although he left the series in 1993, since he was a developer, he still earned tens of million dollars ''a year''[[/note]] to charities he supported in life. |
| 142 | * Robert Landsburg was a photographer who'd spent several weeks photographing Mount St. Helens, which was on the verge of erupting. On May 18th, 1980, when the volcano finally did erupt, Landsburg was only four miles away and had no chance to escape. Knowing this, he photographed as much of the eruption as he could, leaving himself enough time to wind up his film into its case, place his camera in its bag, place that bag into his backpack, and lay his body on top of the bag to protect it. His body was found 17 days later, buried in ash and with his film intact. His photographs proved incredibly valuable in documenting the historic eruption. |
| 143 | * Dale Earnhardt Sr. died on the last lap of the 2001 Daytona 500, blocking the traffic behind him so his team could secure a 1-2 finish, the first in the team's history. |
| 144 | * [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} Mythbuster]] Jessie Combs died in 2019 while setting the all-time women's land speed record. Her rocket car wiped out after hitting a top speed of 522 miles per hour, breaking a record that had stood since 1976, and stands to this day. |
| 145 | * Wrestler Shad Gaspard and Creator/NayaRivera both died two months apart in 2020 and under eerily similar circumstances: due to drowning while saving their young sons. As they both ended up in trouble while swimming, they made sure their children were safe then disappeared into the waters. Search and rescue teams (that also consisted of costars/friends from their respective businesses) eventually found their bodies within days. |
| 146 | * American military dentist Ben L. Salomon died in action at the Battle of Saipan when an American aid tent was overrun by the Japanese. Rather than run away, Salomon shot a Japanese soldier dead, headbutted another one and snatched his machine gun before opening fire on the Japanese as the wounded escaped. When the aid tent was re-taken a few days later, Salomon was found surrounded by the dead bodies of 98 Japanese soldiers. It had taken 76 gunshots and 24 bayonet wounds to kill him. |
| 147 | * The Athenian statesman Alcibiades was assassinated at his villa in 404 BC, but he didn't go down easily; when the assassins showed up, he ran out [[FullFrontalAssault butt-naked]] and started stabbing them until they eventually retreated and opened fire on him with arrows. Even then, he survived 14 shots before finally dying. |
| 148 | * Mexican rancher "Don" Alejo Garza Tamez became something of a MemeticBadass in his home country after his 2010 LastStand against the Los Zetas cartel. The Los Zetas had ordered him to surrender his ranch within 24 hours. Alejo refused. The next day, armed Los Zetas enforcers arrived at his ranch and told him to surrender or die. [[DefiantToTheEnd Alejo refused]]. An enforcer fired a warning shot to scare him. Alejo responded by pulling out a handgun and shooting two of the enforcers dead before running back inside the ranch. That was when it turned out that [[BadassNormal Alejo was proficient in firearms]] [[MassOhCrap and had used the 24 hours to stockpile guns to fight the Los Zetas]]. In the next five minutes, four more cartel enforcers were shot, two fatally, until the Los Zetas [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ran away]]. This was ''after'' they blew up the ranch house with grenades and Alejo still continued firing. When the Mexican marines finally arrived, [[PoliceAreUseless after the Los Zetas had retreated]], they found Alejo, who had bled out from bullet and shrapnel wounds in his firing position in the bathroom. [[CoolOldGuy He was 77]]. |
| 149 | ** It gets better. When the marines found his body, he was facing the bathroom door and pointing his gun at it. Since the only two Los Zetas to have entered the building had been shot within seconds, [[RasputinianDeath he must have still been alive when the marines got there to hear them coming]]. |
| 150 | * Flying officer Lloyd Trigg engaged a German U-Boat in the Atlantic during World War II. During the engagement Trigg's plane was damaged by the U-Boat's anti-aircraft guns and caught on fire. Trigg could have made an emergency landing in the sea, but instead he continued flying and dropped his depth charges on the U-Boat, before crash-landing and dying when his plane exploded. The damage inflicted by Trigg was enough to sink the U-Boat within 20 minutes of his death. |
| 151 | * Sergeant Thomas Frank Durrant was a motor launch gunner who manned a gun turret on HM Motor Launch 306 during the raid on St. Nazaire in Occupied France. During the raid, Durrant was ordered to fire on an enemy destroyer's bridge. He was shot in the arm, and kept firing. Then his exposed position was illuminated by a searchlight and he was shot in the stomach, and kept firing. He was shot repeatedly in the arms, legs, stomach, chest and head, and kept firing. It got to the point that he had to hold on to the gun to stay upright, ''and he was still firing''. Eventually he had to be dragged away from the gun by the Germans when they captured the Motor Launch and later died of his injuries. |
| 152 | * The Battle of Mogaung saw one Indian-British army company under heavy machine gun fire while attempting to capture a nearby bridge. Captain Michael Allmand, leader of the company, was suffering from trench foot at the time but nevertheless charged the guns himself, fighting his way through deep mud and shell holes and successfully destroying one of the guns with grenades before being gunned down by the Japanese defenders. |
| 153 | * During the 2017 London Bridge attack, banker Ignacio Echeverría Miralles de Imperial attacked terrorist Rachid Redouane with his skateboard and knocked him down, then attacked another terrorist, Youssef Zaghba. He was stabbed to death while attacking Zaghba, but his attack is credited with preventing the terrorists from killing several people. |
| 154 | * The 2017 Westminster attack around the same time saw constable Keith Palmer, who was unarmed, tackle attacker Khalid Masood, who had two knives. Despite being stabbed multiple times, Palmer continued to struggle with Masood until another officer shot Masood dead, at which point Palmer succumbed to his wounds. |
| 155 | * That kind of devotion to duty is nothing new: in 2003 PC Stephen Oake was stabbed eight times by Islamic militant Kamel Bourgass, including at least once through the heart, but still managed to subdue and handcuff him before he died. |
| 156 | * Police Detective John Gibson was shot by Russell Weston Jr. on July 24, 1998, while working at the US Capitol, but survived long enough to return fire and shoot Weston four times before passing out. |
| 157 | * During an assassination attempt against UsefulNotes/HarrySTruman, one of the assassins, Griselio Torresola, shot officer Leslie Coffelt, who was standing guard outside. He and his partner Oscar Collazo assumed Coffelt dead and proceeded inside, where they opened fire on the police. However, Coffelt was NotQuiteDead and managed to prop himself up and shoot Torresola dead before he blacked out and died. The Secret Service's break room is named in Coffelt's honor. |
| 158 | * In 69 AD, Roman Emperor Galba and his deputy Piso Licinianus were attacked by a group of renegade Praetorians working for Galba's rival, Marcus Otho. While most of their guards either fled or turned on them, Piso's bodyguard Sempronius Densus was the sole guard to come to their defence. While Piso escaped and hid, Densus challenged the attackers and held them off single-handedly for as long as he could until he was eventually cut down. He was the only guard to be named in the histories relating Galba's assassination, as he was deemed the only one worthy of mention. |
| 159 | * King Agis III of Sparta was at the head of his troops when they were crushed in the Battle of Megalopolis. After fighting valiantly, his wounds got the better of him and he was dragged away by his men, only for the Macedonians to surround them. Knowing he wouldn't survive his wounds anyway, King Agis ordered the men carrying him to withdraw before getting to his feet, sword in hand, and making a LastStand to buy them time to get away until one of the Macedonians eventually killed him with a well-aimed spear throw. |
| 160 | * During the Battle of Saipan, the 27th US Infantry Division's position was surrounded by Japanese soldiers. Sergeant Thomas Baker was wounded but refused to withdraw, instead continuing to fire at the Japanese. When his ammo ran out, he charged them and started beating them back with his rifle until it broke and he had no option but to beat a retreat. One of the other soldiers carried him 50 yards before being wounded, at which point [[IWillOnlySlowYouDown Baker insisted he be left to die rather than slow them down]]. At his request, Baker was left propped against a tree with a pistol containing eight bullets. When the position was retaken, Baker's corpse was found, still lying against the tree, clutching an empty pistol with the bodies of eight Japanese soldiers around him. |
| 161 | * The Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066 is mostly remembered due to an unidentified Viking berserker who [[OneManArmy single-handedly held back the entire English army]] for a time. He managed to kill 40 Englishmen before being killed himself, and even then they had to cheat by floating under the bridge and stabbing him from beneath. |
| 162 | * In March of 1944, Chindit George Cairns was involved in attack on a Japanese-held hill. When a Japanese officer hacked off his arm with a katana, he went berserk, killed him, grabbed the katana in his remaining arm, and sprinted up the hill, cutting down any Japanese soldier that was anywhere near him. He left a trail of blood and dead and wounded Japanese in his wake until he fell over dead from blood loss, [[SarcasmMode or because his blood-rage became so potent that it literally overloaded his mortal body and caused his spirit to transcend into the personification of war.]] You decide. |
| 163 | * Lawyer Clement Vallandigham was defending a client named Thomas [=McGehean=] who was accused of murder. Vallandingham instead said Tom Myers had [[LethalKlutz shot himself by accident]], and proceeded to demonstrate how such a feat could happen. Alas, the pistol was loaded. [=McGehean=] was declared Not Guilty, [[ShootTheShaggyDog only to die of a gunshot four years after]]. |
| 164 | * On June 4, 1923, a 22-year-old Irishman called Frank Hayes entered a steeplechase in New York state. Hayes had never won a horse race in his life—in fact, he was technically only a stableman, and not a jockey by profession—and his horse, a filly called Sweet Kiss, had 20-1 odds of winning. Which, as it happened, was exactly what the filly managed to do—but when officials came to congratulate Hayes, they discovered he'd died in the ''middle of the race'', having suffered a heart attack on horseback yet somehow managing to remain on his saddle until Sweet Kiss crossed the finish line.[[note]]One contributing factor in Hayes' death may have been the extreme measures he'd taken to meet his weight requirements; it was reported he'd lost 12 pounds in a matter of ''days''. Sweet Kiss, for her part, never raced again for the rest of her life.[[/note]] |
| 165 | * King UsefulNotes/CharlesI of England had not been a popular monarch, to put it lightly, given his reign saw a civil war that actually ended the British monarchy until his son managed to reclaim it. However, his execution could honestly be seen as the highlight of his reign, where he conducted himself with an incredibly steely [[FaceDeathWithDignity dignity]]. It was a cold day, so he demanded to wear extra layers lest anyone see him shivering and mistake it for fear. He stretched out his arms after his final prayers to signal the executioner to go ahead. |
| 166 | * Yu-Gi-Oh creator Kazuki Takahashi died July 4 2022 when he drowned trying to save three other people who were caught in a rip current. |
| 167 | * Three Brazilian Expeditionary Force soldiers during the Second World War—Arlindo Lúcio da Silva, Geraldo Baeta da Cruz and Geraldo Rodrigues de Souza— became separated from their unit on 14 April 1945 while on patrol in Italy and were surrounded by around 100 German soldiers. Surrounded, outnumbered 33:1 and with no help in sight, they nonetheless refused the German demand of surrender and fired at the enemy until they ran out of ammunition, at which point they fixed bayonets, charged the German lines and were shot down. [[WorthyOpponent In recognition of their bravery, their German opponents buried them with full honours and the inscription "Drei Brasilianische Helden" ("Three Brazilian Heroes").]] |
| 168 | * The Battle of Camarón during the Second Franco-Mexican War, the origin of the French Foreign Legion's reputation for bravery. A French patrol of 65 men was besieged by around 3, 000 Mexicans and, upon seeing the situation was hopeless, the French commander Captain Jean Danjou ordered his men to swear that they would fight to the death. Danjou was killed almost immediately repelling the Mexican's first attempt to breach the French line, but [[YouAreInCommandNow his lieutenant assumed command]] and the fighting continued. Four hours in, with 32 Legionnaires remaining, they were offered another chance to surrender. The response, from a French sergeant, was ''[[PrecisionFStrike "Merde"]]''. Six hours in they were down to only twelve men and ''still'' refused another offer of surrender. After another hour only five Legionnaires were left and decided to mount a bayonet charge. Two of them were cut down by Mexican fire, with one of them having thrown himself in front of his lieutenant, at which point the remaining two infantry surrendered on the condition of being allowed to keep their weapons and equipment and their wounded lieutenant receiving medical treatment. Both requests were granted, although the wounded lieutenant unfortunately died of his injuries regardless. The Mexican Government erected a monument to the 65 Legionnaires many years later and holds an annual parade [[WorthyOpponent in honour of their stand]], whereas the French Foreign Legion continue to regard Captain Danjou's prosthetic hand as their most treasured historical relic to this day. |
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